| ASUS motherboards are very much seperated from their laptop division. Ive found that both ASUS video cards and laptops are excellent, with brilliant service and warranty response, but their motherboard division is a completely different story.
Ive had my GF4 TI 4600 RMAd after 2 and a half years, and replaced by an FX 5950 due to lack of 4600s in stock, I couldnt believe how good they were. Then Ive had to deal with their A8V motherboards, and more recently, the A8N-SLIs. Out of the 4 DOA A8Vs ive had only 2 had their warranty honoured, while the other two were blamed on shipping. None of the A8Ns have overclocked or performed even reasonably well and one of them came with no onboard LAN function.
Due to the size of the company, I think when you deal with laptops, video cards, or SFFs (also very good), you are dealing with an entirely different office and group of policies than the motherboard division.
I still dont think they are in the DFI/EPoX/ABit league. Just my thoughts though.
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